I’ve been meaning to blog about some of the online, free courses (I’m not concentrating here on individual lectures, although there are a couple below; I might do more individual lectures some other time … I’m trying to figure out the best way to present them) which are proliferating at iTunes U which should be of interest to readers of rogueclassicism … here’s a few that I’ve come across lately:
LaTrobe University offers:
- The Roman World (Rhiannon Evans)
- Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War (Chris Mackie)
Yale:
- Ancient Greek History (Donald Kagan – Video)
- Ancient Greek History (Donald Kagan – Audio)
Stanford:
- Virgil’s Aeneid (Susanna Braund)
- Hannibal (Patrick Hunt … I may have mentioned this one a while back)
UCLA:
- Spectacle Entertainments of Ancient Rome (Paolo Monella)
University of Warwick:
- Studying Coins from the Ancient World (Kevin Butcher – short videos)
… and not so much a course as a conference which was held at the Yale Divinity School (wish we had more conferences on iTunes … the technology isn’t that difficult!):
- Women in the Religious and Intellectual Activity of the Ancient Mediterranean World (not sure of the length of each and I couldn’t connect this a.m.)
… and a lecture from UCL that did catch my eye:
- The Ancient World in Silent Film (Maria Wyke)
… just a taste, perhaps. After all these years iTunes still hasn’t created a facility to alert you to things you might be interested in this sort of area (as opposed to alerting you when the latest Lady Gaga release is out)
I listened to Susanna Braund’s Aeneid series and really enjoyed it. We’ve swapped a few emails since, too. There’s also a Yale course on Roman Architecture (video) that I’ve downloaded but haven’t watched yet.